Nintendo's Revolution Will Fail
The new console may have gamers and non-gamers in its sights, but analysts say that isn't going to help it do any better.
Nintendo is trying desperately to appeal to as big an audience as possible with its new Revolution console, but it's still going to fail miserably. This is the opinion of Japanese analysts who recently checked their crystal balls to opine on the console's upcoming battle against Sony and Microsoft.
Even with a DS-inspired push to draw non-gamers and the Virtual Console to bring in old-timers, Nintendo will end up where it is now, nursing a 20 per cent share of the video game pie, according to analysts at the Daiwa Institute Of Research and Credit Suisse First Boston, as reported by GameSpot.
But not everyone is as negative. The unique, wand-like controller could help the Revolution do for Nintendo's console battle what the quirky DS did for its war for palms with Sony, says an IT journalist quoted by Japanese games magazine Famitsu.
Timing will also be important.
While the PlayStation 3 and Revolution could both hit Japan this summer, Nintendo's console is predicted to have a bigger line-up of games ready for launch day, thanks both to the lower specs (and thus more reasonable coding demands) of the Revolution and the reported difficulty in development for the PlayStation 3.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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